Mop



June 6, 1933. J GLOVER 1,912,632

MOP

Filed Oci. 17, 1951 Patented June 6, 1933 UNITE STATES PA ENT OFFICE JOHN GLOVER, F CHICAGd, ILLINOIS Application filed October 17, 1931. Serial No. 569,363.

This invention has to do with a mop and more particularly with an improved form of head and handle socket therefor.

Formerly, household mops designed to pass under furniture and other low objects have been of a flat type, and. employed a handle socket angularly displaceable to the mop head. In each case heretofore, however, the handle mounting is above the mop head so that when the handle is lowered to a horizontal position the socket projects above the mop body at least to the amount of itsdiameter. In conventional mops on sale at the present time, most mops have handles which cannot be moved to an angle of zero degrees to the top surface of the mop head.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a mop having all of the useful features of conventional floor mops,

but adapted to permit the means for attaching the handle to the head to fall below the horizontal plane of the mop head.

Those familiar with the art of mop making have long realized the importance of producing a floor mop capable of reaching beneath objects having little floor clearance, andhave brought forth mops intended to accomplish this feat, but these devices have met with little degree of success.

5 reference characters designating similar parts comprise the one sheet of drawing included herewith and made a part of this specification, and in which: '7 1 Figure 1 is a top or plan view of the embodiment of the invention;

' the thrums below.

Figure 2 is a sectional view of the device taken on the line 2-2 of Figur 1; and

Figure 3 is a cross section along the line 33ofl igure 1. I

The reference character 10 designates generally heart shaped plate which comprises tho mop head. Centrallylocated at the bacl redge of plate 10 is a rectangular cutawaysection11 bounded by sides 12 having shoulders 13 and an end 14;. Coextensive with the perimeter of the mop head 10 and terminating at shoulders 13 is a narrowflange 15 struck downwardly from the mop head, and providing several spaced apart lugs 16. f A strip of binding material 17, from which depends thrums 18, is drawn tautly against the periphery of flange 15 and secured thereto by means of rivets 19 anchored in lugs 16. Ends 20 of the'binding strip 17 are directed neatly into section 11 of the head by means of additional rivets 19alocated in shoulders '13. the metallic shoulders 13 from striking and Such disposition of the ends 20 prevents thus disfiguring objectsof furniture.

With the stamping of'base'lO, a shallow channel 21 is beaded near the edge of said base. Small apertures 2 placed at intervals along the bottom of the bead 21 act as orifices throughwhich oil placed in the channel 21 may flow to distribute uniformly over A saddle strap 23 (Figure 3), providing a transverse arcuate bearing surface 2.,jis'

ressed downwardly from the center of plate 10. At either end of bearing S2 1 and in alineinent therewith, complemental bearings 25 are stamped upward from the stock of plate 10.

Ay socket 26 for holding a mop handle 27 is assembled from a flat sheet of metal to have 'a receptacle 28 formed of curved and opposed side members. An extension 29 of the bass wall ofsocket 28 is articulated at its end to-form aloop containing a bearing 31 and heldin position by a rivet 32. Socket 526 is introduced to the mop head 10 with'the lower side of loop 30 seated in bearing 2 1 and with its side members proejecting into slot 11. 7 At this time a pintle V 33 is driven from the lower side of mop head 10 into bearing 31 withthe ends disposed in bearings 25. Strap 23, which is deformed during this operation, immediately retracts to carry the pin 33 well up contiguous bearings 25, where longitudinal movement thereof is prevented by the strictured ends of said bearings. Thus, the socket and mop handle therefor are pivotally attached to the mop head in a manner to adapt an angular combination therebetweeu permitting of the mop handle to occupy a horizontal plane beneath the horizontal plane of the top of the mop head 10 and allowingthe mop to be pushed by such handle into spaces of no greater clearance than required to accommodate the mop head itself.

I claim:

1. A mop comprising a plate having two depressed sections, one countersunk in the front portion of the other, the material of the plate adjacent to the opposite sides of the front depressed section being raised, there being a slot extending from the rear edge of the plate to the back bottom edge of said rear depressed section, a pin over said front depressed section and extending beneath. said raised sections of material, and a socket pivotally anchored to said pin, the angular movement of said socket into a rearwardly horizontal position being limited only by the material of said rear depressed section.

2. A mop head comprising a plate having a slot extending inwardly from the rear edge thereof, there being a depressed section in the material of said plate extending from the front of said slot, and a second depressed section countersunk in the front of the first named depressed. section, a handle socket,

and means extending across said countersunk section for providin a pivotal anchorage for said soc zet. the first named depressed section and said slot receiving said socket incident to said socket being pivoted backwardl v.

3. In a mop, a head comprising a plate having a seat for a socket, there being a section of said plate depressed to eiiect said seat and there being smaller and elevated sections in said plate at the opposite sides and near the front of said depressed section thereby effecting apertures in said plate between the elevated and depressed sections, and a pin extending across said seat into said apertures, said socket being pivotally connected to said pin, and said seat being of a depth to admit of said socket being disposed there in to lie therein in parallelism with the top surface of said plate and in substantial alinementtherewith when moved about said pin.

4. A mop head comprising a flat plate having slot extending from the edge thereof toward its center, there being in said plateat the end of said slot a downwardly displaced section to form a socket rest, the material of the plate in the front opposed sides of said rest being apertured, a pintle extending across said rest and having its ends disposed within said apertures, and a handle socket member connected to said pintle and adapted to be pivoted thereabout to be seated in said socket rest.

5. The mop described in claim 4, in which said handle socket member is of strap material extending about said pintle, the material of said socket being bent into a body adapted to be disposed within the slot and in paral elism with said plate.

6. A .mop head comprising a flat plate having a depending flange to receive thrums, the thrums extending above the plate and being arranged around said plate except at its rear, there being a slot at the rear of said plate, a pintle, and a socket connected to said pintle, the material of said plate to the front of the slot being depressed to form two seats, one of said seats being countersunk in the front section of the other to receive said pintie, and the other of said seats forming a rest for said socket and defining its angular movement in one direction, the material of said socket having its slightest depth over said seat to permit of the top of said socket being moved into parallelism with the plane of said flat plate.

. JOHN GLOVER. 

